Magazine F: Water Issue 30

Magazine F is a food documentary magazine which focuses on one ingredient per issue. The magazine explores how each ingredient is grown, prepared, and shared in different cultures around the world, through in-depth interviews, inspiring stories, and beautiful photos.

The magazine originates in Korea, where it is published roughly 6 times a year. But as part of its quest to examine the use of foods worldwide, it features information on many locations, traditions, cooks, and producers.

This issue on water is a bit of a departure for Magazine F but represents the diversity in articles in both their weight and relation to the topic that one comes to expect from each issue.  From the water cycle, to the history of bottled water, to interviewing collectors of strange and unusual bottled waters; this topic is truly more than meets the eye. 

An interview with the leader of a company working to build solar desalination plants, a coffee company which emphasizes the influence of water quality on coffee extraction, and a section featuring histories of various ubiquitous bottled water companies are of special note.  There is a city guide featuring Oslo and Helsinki, and a shopping guide for interesting waters from around the world.  

Paperback. Color photographs throughout.